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2nd Annual Howard University Black History Month Edit-a-Thon

The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC), in collaboration with Wikimedia DC, is hosting Howard University's second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon. The goal of this special edit-a-thon is to give faculty, graduate students, and others the skills they need to improve or update existing Wikipedia entries relating to African American and African Diaspora history and culture and create vital new ones using the MSRC's unique collections.

when

February 26, 2016 at 10 AM – 4 PM

where

Founders Library Browsing Room, Founders Library, Howard University

500 Howard Place NW, Washington, DC

Shaw–Howard University (Green and Yellow Lines)

your hosts

Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC)

Wikimedia DC

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Kirill Lokshin (talk) 00:49, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
FeanorStar7 00:54, 11 February 2016 (UTC) (tentative)
Duckduckstop (talk)
Christina Burke
Daja Henry

Articles to work on

Beth A. Brown (1969-2008), NASA astrophysicist
Benilde Little, author
Doris Evans McGinty (d. 2005), Howard University professor
African Americans in foreign policy
Farish Street – African-American business district in Jackson, Mississippi
Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937), lawyer and reformer; first Black woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1926)
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (1893–1973), American pianist, composer, and arranger of folk songs
Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator
Charles A. Smythwick, novelist
Harlem Book Fair
National Black Theatre
Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner
Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist
Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor
Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
Mildred Blount (1907–1974?), milliner
Ruth Bowen (1924–2009), booking agent
Elombe Brath (d. 2014), anti-apartheid activist
Judy Dearing (1940–1995), Broadway costume designer
Cheryll Greene (1943-2013), editor
Harlem Six
Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educator, first African American Catholic Mother Superior (see Healy family#Eliza Healy)
Roi Ottley (1906-1960), journalist
Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977), physician at Harlem Hospital (I looked at the deleted page for her and there is nothing to bring to the new article.)
Maritcha Rémond Lyons (1848–1929)
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968), Harlem salon host, suffragist, activist
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1883–1966), Harlem YWCA leader
Greater Bethel AME Church (Harlem)
James Yates (1906-1992), soldier, civil rights activist and author
George Washington Ellis (1875-1919), attorney and writer http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Ellis,+George+Washington
Catherine Allen Latimer (1896-1948), first Black professional librarian at NYPL - SCRBC
Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator
Charles A. Smythwick, novelist
Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner
Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist
Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor
Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968), Harlem salon host, suffragist, activist -- created!
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1883–1966), Harlem YWCA leader
Miriam Duchess Harris, academic and author
Francesca Harper, dancer and choreographer
Kathleen Stanford Grant A Pilates Elder & Master Teacher; certified by Joseph Pilates, the creator of the method.
Edward Augustine Savoy Worked for 21 secretaries of state through 14 presidencies from Grant to FDR - See more at:
Charles William Anderson (28 Apr. 1866-28 Jan. 1938) NYC politician and public official
Charles Banks (25 Mar. 1873-1923) Banker and businessman from Mound Bayou
Thomas Bayne (1824-1889) Dentist and politician born into slavery
James Madison Bell (3 Apr. 1826-1902) Poet
William Alexander Brown (fl. 1817-1823) Manager of African Grove Theater, playwright
John Edward Bush (15 Nov. 1856-11 Dec. 1916) Publisher, insuranceman, politician, founder of Mosaic Templars of America
George William Cook (7 Jan. 1855-20 Aug. 1931) Educator and civil rights leader
John Wesley Cromwell (5 Sept. 1846-14 Apr. 1927) Lawyer and historian
Warren Clay Coleman (25 Mar. 1849-31 Mar. 1904) Founder of Coleman Manufacturing Company (textiles)
Isom Dart (1848-3 Oct. 1900) cowboy and rustler
Cornelius Nathaniel Dorsette (1852-7 Dec. 1897) Doctor, Alabama's first licensed Black physician
H. Ford Douglas (1831-11 Nov. 1865) Abolitionist and military officer
John Patterson Green (2 Apr 1845-30 Aug 1940) Lawyer and politician
Henry Alexander Hunt, Jr. (10 Oct. 1866-1 Oct. 1938) Educator and government official
John Jasper (4 July 1812-30 Mar. 1901) Baptist preacher and orator
Thomas Jeremiah (?-18 Aug.1775) Free Black pilot, fisherman, executed for allegedly forementing a slave uprising
John Jones (3 Nov. 1816-21 May 1879) Civil rights activist and Chicago county commissioner
Andrew Marshall Cox (c. 1756-11 Dec. 1856) Pastor and businessman
James Julius McClendon (16 Mar. 1898-20 Apr. 1982) Physician and civil rights activist
James Carrol Napier (9 June 1845-21 Apr. 1940) Politician, lawyer, businessman
Berry O'Kelly (c. 1860-14 Mar. 1931) Businessman
Benjamin B. Pelham (1862-7 Oct. 1948) Newspaper publisher, municipal official, political leader
Henry Vinton Plummer (31 July 1844-8 Feb. 1906) Baptist clergyman and U.S. Army chaplin
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) African American painter
Middleton A. “Spike” Harris Founder of the Negro History Associates
Albert Alexander Smith Artist and musician
Edwin Henry Hackley (1859-1940) Attorney and activist
Marco Ramirez Playwright and TV writer; wrote Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming play, The Royale.
Ademola Olugebefola Artist
Vy Higgensen Radio personality, producer, writer
Duma Ndlova South African composer and writer
Sonny Jim Gaines a.k.a. G.E. Gaines Playwright and actor
Marcus Jackson poet (not the athlete for whom there is a Wikipedia page)
Martha Minerva Franklin, (29 Oct. 1870-26 Sept. 1968) Nurse - Founded National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN).Schomburg has the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses records
Frances Mary Albrier (21 Sept. 1898-21 Aug. 1987) Civil rights activist and community leader, was born in Mount Vernon, NY
Eva Bowles Secretary for colored work for the YWCA
Frances Elliott Davis Nurse and community advocate
Emma L. Bowen Community Activist
Marie T. Cochran, artists and writer
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, artist
Sana Musasama, artist

Other to-do lists

Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/to do
African-American artists
Missing entries from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Caribbean poets
Missing entries from Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Missing entries from Writing African-American Women
Missing entries from Black Women Scientists in the United States
Missing entries from the Dictionary of African Biography

Research resources

Outcomes

Lawrence Benjamin Brown add infobox
Frances Mary Albrier
Glory Van Scott
Charles A. Smythwick add infobox ; sections
Ruth Logan Roberts add infobox
Russell Williams, II add infobox
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders add infobox
Duchess Harris add infobox

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